This story from Yachts and Yachting: Awesome and epic are words that are often overused today, but both can be applied to a frantic Day 3 of the Cadet Nationals at WPNSA. 2 races were run at the very top of the wind range for junior sailing, and such were the attritional demands of the day that only 25 boats out of a fleet of 70 managed to score in both. Having had to cancel racing on Day 2, the Race Officer brought forward racing by an hour, so by 9.30am the Gold and Silver fleets were launching into a solid Force 5 breeze. Undaunted by heavy gusts and a building sea inside the harbour, plenty of the competitors flew spinnakers on the long run down to the committee boat. Race 4 got away at the first attempt and after an arduous beat it was AUS9616 Thomas/Sophie Alexander who appeared at the windward mark with a huge lead in this, their first race since arriving in the UK for next weeks Worlds. Behind them the gybe mark claimed a large proportion of the fleet including home favourites GBR8352 Lucy/Cally Terkelsen. By the finish AUS9616 had increased their lead while Argentinian visitors ARG9472 Nahuel Ponce/Lucas Pruden had shown their heavy weather skills to finish 2nd and GBR8541 Alex Warrington/Anna Wootton had continued their solid series with 3rd. yachtsandyachting/news/178311/Cadet-Nationals-at-the-WPNSA-day-3
Posted on: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 05:30:13 +0000